Automation
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Choosing the Best VMware Automation Tools
Providing streamlined and consistent management across the virtual estate is extremely important when using enterprise virtualization servers to run virtual…
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Apt Periodic Autoclean Interval with Unattended-Upgrades
If you have a number of Linux servers in your environment, whether these are in production environments or in the…
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Convert Packer Variables JSON to HCL2 for automated vSphere templates
One of the tasks I have been working on lately is getting my Packer vSphere build templates converted over from…
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Packer Build Ubuntu 22.04 for VMware vSphere
Yesterday, Ubuntu released the latest in the line of LTS versions of Ubuntu Server and Workstation. Ubuntu 22.04 is a…
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VMware Event Broker Appliance VEBA tutorial: How to create an email notification
Among the really cool projects I have stood up in the lab as of recently is the VMware Event Broker…
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Find Guest OS Type ID using PowerCLI
Have you needed to find the Guest OS type IDs that are used in Terraform or other automation in provisioning…
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Packer Build Ubuntu 21.04 for VMware vSphere
If you aren’t already using Hashicorp Packer for automating builds of the various operating systems you use in your environment,…
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Terraform vSphere tutorial: Linux Virtual Machine Clone
Terraform is a great infrastructure as code (IaC) platform that allows easily spinning up and customizing infrastructure. The great thing…
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Terraform 0.15 Released New Features
Terraform is arguably one of the most popular DevOps tools across a wide range of platforms. It continues to add…
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Automated Packer VMware vSphere templates with CI/CD Pipeline Build
Lately, I have been getting more into automation, CI/CD pipelines, and other technologies. I knew it was time with the…
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